Exchange Rates — Behzod

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Over the last few weeks, I've had the same conversation with a number of friends who are involved in end of year planning cycles. All of them inevitably say something like "[NAME] just doesn't understand why this is a priority." While the common point of frustration is a misunderstanding, I think the deeper issue is that person can't translate what's being said into something they understand. Each discipline/department within an organization has a currency in which they primarily transact. For sales & finance, it's revenue. For design, it's the user experience. For product, it's features. Effective prioritization requires establishing exchange rates between these different currencies. Doing this allows the trade offs and tensions within a roadmap to be converted into understood units, unblocking people to actually debate about an investment, rather than argue which of their currencies is worth more. People who are earlier in their career often are unaware of these other currencies beca

Exchange Rates Jun 17 Written By Behzod Sirjani Over the last few weeks, I've had the same conversation with a number of friends who are involved in end of year planning cycles. All of them inevitably say something like " [NAME] just doesn't understand why this is a priority ." While the common point of frustration is a misunderstanding, I think the deeper issue is that person can't translate what's being said into something they understand. Each discipline/department within an organization has a currency in which they primarily transact. For sales & finance, it's revenue. For design, it's the

Exchange Rates — Behzod

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